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Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Yujie Sun, Limin Jiao, Yunqi Guo, Zhibang Xu
The incongruous patterns of urban growth often give rise to a myriad of issues, notably urban sprawl and urban shrinkage. These challenges frequently coexist and interact, presenting formidable obstacles to achieving sustainable city development. Therefore, investigations that endeavor to scrutinize both urban expansion and shrinkage in concert from a comprehensive perspective are essential. Present
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From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Soran Mansournia, Frans J. Sijtsma, Claire Freeman, Christina Ergler, Rezan Naqshbandi, Azadeh Pirzadeh, Femke Niekerk, Omid Vakili Ch
Spaces for play in children's daily-life are essential for their development. However, planning in most cities is limitedly aware of children's needs for playable-spaces. This study explores a PPGIS-approach to identify the “” of a city, offering insights for planners. Our approach involved 416 children in Mariwan\Iran. Using polygons instead of the conventional pinning-points, children digitally mapped
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Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jie Huang, Meicheng Xiong, Jiaoe Wang, Long Cheng, Haoran Yang
As population aging has been an issue worldwide, the mobility of older people have attracted the attention of scholars from urban planning, transport geography, and social science. However, few have investigated socio-spatial differentiation among mobility groups, considering their daily needs and activity spaces. To fill this research gap, we conducted a comparative analysis of socio-spatial differentiation
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Satellite-based Machine Learning modelling of Ecosystem Services indicators: A review and meta-analysis Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Bruna Almeida, João David, Felipe S. Campos, Pedro Cabral
Satellite-based Machine Learning (ML) modelling has emerged as a powerful tool to understand and quantify spatial relationships between landscape dynamics, biophysical variables and natural stocks. Ecosystem Services indicators (ESi) provide qualitative and quantitative information aiding the assessment of ecosystems’ status. Through a systematic meta-analysis following the PRISMA guidelines, studies
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The preservation of old forests in southwest China is closely linked to the presence of ethnic minorities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Qian Li, Yuemin Yue, Martin Brandt, Zhengchao Chen, Xiaowei Tong, Siyu Liu, Fei Yang, Xiangming Xiao, Kelin Wang
Sacred forests are increasingly disappearing due to increasing land pressure and a decline in cultural values. Protecting the remaining sacred forests plays a crucial role in preserving biodiversity. The existence of remaining old forests often related to local people and their culture, but this relationship has rarely been quantified at large regional scales. This study analyzes the relationship between
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A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 George-Marius Cracu, Andrei Schvab, Zoia Prefac, Marius Popescu, Igor Sîrodoev
Green space accessibility is an important component of life quality, due to the many benefits it brings to human communities. This aspect is especially relevant in urban environments, which are characterized by a high density of residential and commercial buildings, as well as by higher levels of pollution (especially air and noise pollution) caused mainly by transportation or industrial activities
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The dichotomous world of sanitation management: ‘Matter out of place’ in Urban India Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 V.S. Saravanan
The paper examines the dichotomous world of sanitation management in Coimbatore, India. Sanitation management is a process of safely managing and disposing human excreta and wastewater. As it flows from the private sphere to the public, many actors have social aspirations and discriminate according to class, thus maintaining a dichotomous world – the purity (clean, orderly, simple, and aesthetically
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Unveiling spatial dependencies in walking travel choices Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Paulo Júnio Moura Rosa, Cassiano Augusto Isler
Travel behavior analyses through traditional discrete choice models offer insights into the factors that influence individual choices. However, the literature often neglects the spatial interactions between individuals and attributes in the context of walking trips. This paper investigates the spatial dependencies in walking travel choices with a case study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. We compared
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You are where you live? Evaluating the racial and ethnic (mis)representation in geodemographic classification Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Yue Lin
Geodemographic classification, a process of categorizing neighborhoods into distinct groups based on their demographic, social, and economic characteristics to create summary profiles, has significantly expanded its applications over the last forty years, from its origins in urban sociology to fields such as health, transportation, and public policy. However, a fundamental issue associated with this
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Mapping open spaces in Swiss mountain regions through consensus-building and machine learning Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Matteo Riva, Felix Kienast, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
The rapid expansion of tourism, transportation, energy, and agricultural infrastructure in mountain areas raises concerns about landscape fragmentation and impacts on aesthetic values. Effective delineation of these areas relies on negotiating various qualities that define them. In our study, we developed a collaborative consensus-building process with experts to map open spaces. Rather than collecting
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Store network expansion in the era of online consumption: Evidence from the Suning Appliance retail chain in China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lei Zhou, Shuguang Wang, Han Li
The advent of online consumption has significantly transformed the operation strategies and store deployment of offline retailers. This paper investigates the store network expansion of Suning Appliance, one of China's most prominent appliance retailers, utilizing GIS spatial analysis and geographically weighted regression. We found that contraction and expansion coexist in an alternating pattern in
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Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yue Gong, Zhiqiang Cao, De Tong
As the knowledge economy has characterized this era, the intentions of skilled migrants to settle have drawn increasing scholarly attention. In the literature, the role of economic incentives, urban amenities, and political factors has usually been considered to drive talent migration, but little attention has been given to its social driver. Through a quantitative study of domestic migrants in Chinese
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How rural community resilience evolves after a disaster? A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Huizhen Su, Xueyan Zhao, Lucang Wang, Yuheng Li
Frequent occurrence of natural disasters has become one of the most serious challenges to human society. As rural communities are the forefront of disasters, enhancing the resilience of rural community is crucial to mitigate the impact of natural disasters and seek rapid recovery. This paper provides an analytical framework for changing trajectories of the resilience of rural communities after disasters
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High-resolution modelling of island exposure to natural hazards tested with real disasters Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Nicolás Ferrer, Gustavo Herrera
Oceanic islands are multi-risk territories but statistical aggregation of socio-economic exposure data is often a constraint for high-resolution risk modelling and hazard prevention. This work presents a downscaling procedure to obtain a complete high-resolution cartographic base on the distribution of main socio-economic variables in the Canary Islands (Spain). For this purpose, a new dasymetric procedure
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Insight into China's water pollution and sustainable water utilization from an integrated view Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Yupeng Fan, Chuanglin Fang
Water pollution and scarcity pose significant challenges to sustainability in China. Grey water footprint (GWF) can assess water pollution degree since it represents the freshwater needed to dilute the pollutants load to meet surrounding water quality standard. We detect the real water pollution and sustainable water use situation in China based on GWF and a proposed composite framework during 2000–2020
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Do “banking deserts” even exist? Examining access to brick-and-mortar financial institutions in the continental United States Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Andrew J. Van Leuven, Dayton Lambert, Tessa Conroy, Kelsey L. Thomas
This study compares competing definitions of “banking deserts” and their applicability in characterizing access to physical financial institutions such as banks, credit unions, or farm credit lenders. Geostatistical techniques are used to locate and spatially analyze financial institutions in census tracts across the lower 48 United States. Logistic regression is used to identify the demographic, economic
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The uneven distribution of medical resources for severe diseases in China: An analysis of the disparity in inter-city patient mobility Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Xiangnan Wang, Xuanyi Nie
The uneven distribution of medical resources in China has been a persistent concern. This is particularly evident among patients with severe diseases, who often seek better medical resources, resulting in inter-city patient mobility. This research aims to analyze the uneven distribution of medical resources for these patients in China, focusing on their inter-city mobility patterns. Using patients'
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Mapping energy inequality between urban and rural China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Yu Yang, Jiashun Xue, Junxi Qian, Xiaoying Qian
Energy use between urban and rural areas is very important in the context of the global energy transition and climate change. However, it is difficult to measure the differences and inequalities in energy consumption due to data limitations. In this paper, a dataset distinguishing urban-rural energy consumption has been generated. We construct an energy inequality index (EI) to assess the difference
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What North American retail food environment indices miss in Guatemala: Cultural considerations for the study of place and health Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yulia E. Chuvileva, Arie Manangan, Aiken Chew, George Rutherford, Marcela Barillas-Basterrechea, Joaquín Barnoya, Patrick N. Breysse, Heidi Blanck, Leandris Liburd
We evaluated the cross-context validity and equivalence of the US- and Canada-originated Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) and modified RFEI (mRFEI) against a retail food environment dataset from the indigenous-majority city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. The RFEI/mRFEI failed to identify 77% of retailers and misclassified the healthiness of 42% of the remaining retailers in Xela, inaccurately
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Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Feng Gao, Zhenzhi Jiao, Shunyi Liao, Rui Liu, Zhisai Hu, Yang Liu, Hongbao Li, Wangyang Chen, Xin Chen, Guanyao Li
The issue of energy consumption is receiving increasing attention due to the growth of the global population and urbanization rate. This study comprehensively analyzed the independent effects, spatial varying effects, and interactive effects of potential factors on summer electricity consumption (EC) by using the geographical detector and geographically weighted regression model. Finally, the study
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Associations between urban greenspace and depressive symptoms in Mexico's cities using different greenspace metrics Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Yang Ju, Mika Moran, Daniel A. Rodríguez, Iryna Dronova, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Kari Moore, Marianela Castillo-Riquelme, Cecilia Anza-Ramirez
Greenspace has been shown to be positively associated with mental wellbeing, but studies from the global South have been scarce. We advance the understanding of the relationship between greenspace and depressive symptoms by using multiple clearly defined metrics describing neighborhood greenness and urban parks in an understudied region with rapid urban growth. We linked individual-level health survey
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Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Bardia Mashhoodi, Dena Kasraian
The rapid growth of heatwaves' severity have increasingly endangered citizens’ health in the last decade. Evidence points to the environmental injustice of heatwaves: inequal heatwave exposure among socioeconomic groups. Failing to use an adequate indicator of thermal comfort at a large scale, the previous studies have not adequately scrutinized the environmental justice of heatwaves and their variations
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Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Xu Wang, Boyu Li, Yingying Liu, Yi Yang, Xuecheng Fu, Ruihua Shen, Wentian Xu, Lei Yao
Improving the understanding of ambient thermal comfort (TC) is a crucial prerequisite for addressing heat-related issues. Thus, this study is conducted to explore the dynamic signatures and potential drivers of TC (indicated by summertime physiological equivalent temperature, PET) in 101 Chinese cities along their urban-rural gradients (urban core area, UCA; urban expansion area, UEA; and rural area
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Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Riccardo Valente, Juan José Medina-Ariza, Juan Carlos Pérez-Pintor, José Antonio Gutiérrez-Gallego
This paper incorporates an explicit mobility dimension into the definition of the neighbourhood and explores its possible implications for the study of spatially distributed phenomena. We analysed the distribution of robbery and theft in Barcelona, Spain, as a testing application. Crime data were aggregated to nonoverlapping units (census tracts) and to a new measure of overlapping neighbourhoods,
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Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Yujia Ming, Yong Liu, Yingpeng Li, Wenze Yue
Community vitality is essential to human health and quality of life through promoting various human activities. However, many Chinese cities witnessed declining vitality during massive suburbanization. Exploring community vitality is an effective way to measure the attractiveness and cohesion of community development towards better governance and planning design. However, extant literature overlooks
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Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kenji Fujiki, Olivier Finance, Joanne Hirtzel, Christophe Enaux
While floods represent the most damaging hazard in France, this study focuses on flooding exposure and the spatial distribution of poverty and home ownership in French cities. Based on the combination of high-resolution topographic and socio-demographic data with flood-risk maps, this study highlights the extensive flooding exposure of French cities, with approximately 2.5 million residents exposed
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Market relatedness and local export dynamics: Evidence from China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Peifeng Zhang, Canfei He, Hantian Sheng
The evolutionary economic geography literature explores the patterns of regional product evolution from the perspective of supply-side relatedness, leaving behind the role of demand-side relatedness. Using China's international trade data, this paper measures product-scale market relatedness and explores the impact of market relatedness on two-fold export dynamics, that is the entry of new products
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Exploring the nexus between perceived ecosystem services and well-being of rural residents in a mountainous area, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ying Wang, Jialiang Sun, Chongchong Liu, Linghua Liu
Understanding stakeholders' perception about local ecosystem services (ES) and its nexus with their objective and subjective well-being is essential for designing efficient ecosystem management and policy interventions to enhance local residents' overall welfare. Despite the widespread agreement upon the linkages between ES and human well-being (HWB), less studies have empirically tested their relationship
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Modelling the suitability of multiple launch rocket system in the war in Ukraine Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 T. Edwin Chow, Dustin Paul Sanchez, Prawan Amatya, Md Tousif Tanzir
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How can landscape visual assessment inform landscape planning and management? – Alto Douro Wine region case study, Portugal Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Ana Medeiros, Cláudia Fernandes, João F. Gonçalves, Paulo Farinha-Marques, Isabel Martinho Da Silva
Upon significant land-use changes, understanding how to measure the visual quality is crucial for landscape monitoring, and policymaking. This study aims to apply an expert protocol to the Alto Douro Wine Region (ADWR), an evolving and living cultural landscape classified by UNESCO. Six visual basins representative of the heterogeneity of ADWR were evaluated: three subjected to monitoring since 2001
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From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yubin Ou, Gengzhi Huang, Rui Chen, Hua Chen, Anan Xie, Desheng Xue
This paper contributes to the cultural world city networks (WCNs) study by examining a Winter Olympics Games (WOGs)-based city network with the enhanced intercity connection framework that highlights the role of multiple actors and their mutual influences in formatting WCNs based on international sports events (ISEs). Drawing upon the data of six WOGs from 2002 to 2022, it reveals the variability and
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Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Zhe Pang, Bo Xie, Zihao An, Lan Wang
Lung cancer remains the primary cause of death globally. Studies have increasingly explored the role of greenspace in mitigating lung cancer risks, yet research gaps persist. First, while the direct spatial effect of greenspace has received attention, its potential spillover effects, driven by human mobility and air pollution dispersion, remain underexamined. Second, despite prevalent assertions of
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Deciphering the evolving trajectories of China's megaregions from 1992 to 2020: A novel morphological approach based on global land cover products Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Haojie Cao, Yu Li, Min Weng, Shiliang Su, Mengjun Kang
The monitoring of megaregion boundaries (MBs) is of vital importance for optimizing land use decision-making. However, the morphological structure of megaregions is currently insufficiently identified due to the nontransparent proprietary or inherent deficiency data sources. Thus, this study utilized land cover products integrated with morphological approaches to delineate the evolving trajectories
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Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Yixiao Wang, Bindong Sun, Tinglin Zhang, Mengying Yu
It remains unclear whether a polycentric city can support more and higher-order consumer amenities. This paper presents new evidence from shopping malls in China and includes the effect of urban spatial structure on the order of consumer amenities and the moderating effect of transportation infrastructure, both of which have been neglected in previous empirical studies. We find that a monocentric city
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Effects of new transit lines on commuting: Evidence from restricted-use Census Bureau microdata Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Wei Li, Haotian Zhong, Marlon G. Boarnet
Urban planners face challenges in justifying the behavioral impacts of public transit investments with causal evidence. In this study, we take a cost-effective approach to data collection by utilizing restricted-use Census Bureau microdata that provide rich individual characteristics and fine-geographical-resolution block information, and then construct a natural experiment. We evaluate the impacts
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Dynamic equity in urban amenities distribution: An accessibility-driven assessment Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Fajle Rabbi Ashik, Md Saiful Islam, Md Saiful Alam, Nusrat Jahan Tabassum, Kevin Manaugh
The continual challenges exist in attaining an equitable allocation of urban amenities. In order to render this objective attainable as well as practical in real-world scenarios, it is imperative to transition from a static conceptualization of equity to a dynamic notion of equity. To assess dynamic equity in the context of Dhaka, we collected data for two distinct time periods, 2005 and 2018, and
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Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jing Jiang, Weijie Qiao, I-Ting Chuang, Yan Li, Tianyi Wang, Lee Beattie
This research explores the feasibility of aligning cities with post-COVID realities by retrofitting the emerging 15-min city model into the current urban setup. COVID-19's lasting global effects on trans-territorial mobility, particularly in car-dependent cities, prompt a rethinking of urban models and infrastructure for heightened resilience and post-pandemic liveability. Using network analysis and
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Economic benefits of urban streetscapes: Analyzing the interrelationships between visual street environments and single-family property values in Seoul, Korea Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ayoung Woo, Jaewon Han, Hyungsup Shin, Sugie Lee
Policymakers and planners often face questions about whether the creation of walkable environments can positively affect nearby housing prices. In response to this situation, numerous previous studies have examined the relationships between neighborhood-scale walkable environments and neighboring property values. However, it remains unknown if micro-scale visual streetscapes significantly affect nearby
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Incorporating spatial heterogeneity to model spontaneous and self-organized urban growth Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Bin Zhang, Shougeng Hu, Haijun Wang, Jianxin Yang, Zhenzhen Wang
Contemporary investigations into cellular automata (CA) modeling often neglect the considerable influence of spatial heterogeneity on both spontaneous and self-organized processes of urban growth. In this research, we combined a partitioned quantity control strategy, the geographically weighted artificial neural network (GWANN), and a neighborhood size-adaptive approach to formulate a CA framework
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Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 James Bullen, Andrew Miles
As cities continue to expand and climate change exacerbates flooding, development within flood risk zones becomes an increasingly pressing concern. Engineered solutions alone cannot fully address the risks to individuals and communities, especially when local officials and residents have conflicting understanding of the risk. Participatory GIS (PGIS) offers a unique opportunity to bridge this gap by
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Re-thinking rurality: Towards a new research approach and rural-urban spatial gradient establishment in Serbia Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marija Drobnjaković, Annett Steinfürer
The research on the rural-urban gradient in Serbia has been reinvigorated following the debate on rural bias. Rural-urban classification is essential in observing spatial, demographic, socio-economic, and environmental processes. There is no consensus regarding the definition of rural and rurality and it should not be observed separately from urban issues. In Serbia, it is still a matter of dispute
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Investigating the diurnal effects of on-street population and streetscape physical environment on street theft crime: A machine learning and negative binomial regression approach using street view images Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Han Yue, Lin Liu, Chong Xu, Guangwen Song, Jianguo Chen, Li He, Lian Duan
Street theft crime remains a significant public safety concern in China and a central focus of urban crime prevention initiatives. Recent studies have combined street view images and deep learning networks to detect on-street population and streetscape physical environment features, highlighting their significance in comprehending the occurrence of street crime. However, the question of whether on-street
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Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Jili Xu, Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yuyao Ye
Industrial branching proposed by evolutionary economic geographers exhibits robustness in illustrating the spatial emergence of new industries in regions. However, extant studies are primarily confined to a single type of industrial branching mechanism, such as spin-off or firm diversification, and biasedly equate them as regional endogenous and firm-centric processes, regardless of wider contextual
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Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Xiang Yan, Shenjing He
Hospital size distribution, i.e., the uneven allocation of healthcare resources between hospitals of different size classes, significantly impacts healthcare equality and efficiency and challenges healthcare governance. Yet, its variation is inadequately explained by two prevalent approaches to size distribution – the statistical approach merely works on statistical patterns, while the economic approach
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Unveiling the effect of land transfer and land acquisition on farmland abandonment: Proximity/distance to the city matters Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Yunling Chen, Maojun Wang, Juanjuan Zhao, Beilei Cai
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Social and spatial inequalities of contemporary food deserts: A compound of store and online access to food in the United Kingdom Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Fatemeh Janatabadi, Andy Newing, Alireza Ermagun
This research studies the social and spatial inequalities of contemporary food deserts in England and Wales. Two indices of the Store Food Desert Index and Online Food Desert Index are measured to examine store access and online access to food at the Lower Layer Super Output Areas geographical level. A detailed analysis is conducted to (i) identify “priority areas” where there is relatively lower store
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Mega-urbanization, territorial fragmentation and social inequality in the Global South: The case of Mexico city and its city-region Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Adrian Guillermo Aguilar, Josefina Hernandez-Lozano
City-regions have become the new dominant form of urbanization in both developed and developing countries, comprising a polycentric network of multiple cities of assorted sizes. However, urbanization does not occur uniformly within the city-region, creating several types of territorial inequalities. This study argues that there is a lack of city-region studies in Latin America for analysing these internal
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Nature's contributions to people responding to landscape stability in a typical karst region, southwest China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Yifei Zhao, Shiliang Liu, Hua Liu, Yuhong Dong, Fangfang Wang
Understanding the response of nature's contributions to people (NCP) to change in landscape stability may constrain and guide human modification of nature. However, the effects of landscape stability on NCP, in the context of active human modification, remain unclear. To address this issue, we chose the Wujiang River Basin in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China as a study area and quantified landscape
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Growth of the wildland-urban interface and its spatial determinants in the Polish Carpathians Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Dominik Kaim, Piotr Szubert, Mahsa Shahbandeh, Jacek Kozak, Krzysztof Ostafin, Volker C. Radeloff
The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where natural vegetation is close to housing and area of concern due to various negative consequences for humans and the environment including fire ignitions, landscape fragmentation and human-wildlife interactions. The WUI is a global phenomenon, and widespread in many countries but long-term WUI dynamics and the main factors causing WUI growth are unknown
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What makes a place special? Understanding drivers and the nature of place attachment Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 D.Y. Jayakody, V.M. Adams, G. Pecl, E. Lester
Place attachment is a key factor in understanding human-nature interactions; Research has shown that place attachment and its influence on environmental behaviour can be positive or negative based on local circumstances. With changing environments, as with climate change, a place-based understanding of place attachment is, therefore, critical to the success of local environmental efforts. Available
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Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Qi-Li Gao, Chen Zhong, Yang Yue, Rui Cao, Bowen Zhang
Sustainable and inclusive urban development requires a thorough understanding of income distribution and poverty. Recent related research has extensively explored the use of automatically generated sensor data to proxy economic activities. Notably, human mobility patterns have been found to exhibit strong associations with socioeconomic attributes and great potential for income estimation. However
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Educational inequality or educational segregation? The determinants of criminal activities in 288 Chinese cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Yanji Zhang, Jiejing Wang, Guangwen Song
The relationships between inequality and crime and segregation and crime are classic topics in crime geography. However, the effects of city-level inequality and segregation based on an individual's socioeconomic status on crime in a racially homogeneous country such as China remain largely unexplored. Using novel location-based service population big data, criminal judgment records, and a nationally
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A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Huanfa Chen, Xiaowei Gao, Huanhuan Li, Zaili Yang
Drones are increasingly adopted for policing in many countries, as they can aid police officers to detect hazards and respond to incidents with timely and low-cost services. However, the planning and deployment of police drones are subject to several challenges, including the proper distance metric for drone flying and the risk-based location optimisation of drone base stations. This study proposes
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Developing a 15-minute city: Evaluating urban quality using configurational analysis. The case study of Terni and Matera, Italy Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Beniamino Murgante, Raffaela Valluzzi, Alfonso Annunziata
the pandemic and the post-pandemic scenarios pose the question of a radical transformation of cities based on criteria of diversity, density, and proximity to foster inclusion, sustainability, participation, and quality of life. The 15-minute city emerges as a robust concept to inform the adaptation of the urban environment to the post-pandemic scenario. The 15-minute city concept combines the components
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Identification of irregular extension features and fragmented spatial governance within urban fringe areas Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Liang Zhou, Le Wei, David López-Carr, Xuewei Dang, Bo Yuan, Zifeng Yuan
Ecological fragmentation and environmental degradation are the main problems faced by urban fringe areas (UFA). The urban sprawl of UFA is the most complex, varied, and sensitive area for urbanization. However, the research on spatial governance in the UFA of megacities is still in the early. Therefore, this paper takes Xi'an as an example, using nighttime light (NTL) data as the basic data. ArcGIS
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Spatial analysis of social capital and community heterogeneity at the United States county level Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Alina Peluso, Joseph Tuccillo, Kevin Sparks, Anuj Kapadia, Heidi A. Hanson
Social capital, defined as the resources or benefits received through one's connections with others, contributes to economic efficiency, growth of communities, and population health. In 2006, Rupasingha et al. [1] developed a high-quality, US county-level social capital index based on individuals' participation in associational activities, trust, and civic engagement which is available for years 1990
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Integrating national integrated assessment model and land-use intensity for estimating China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Yuanhui Wang, Changqing Song, Yifan Gao, Sijing Ye, Peichao Gao
Carbon emission reduction in China matters to global climate change mitigation. China has been experiencing extensive land changes, which profoundly influence terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage (TECS) and carbon emissions. Scholars have predicted influences of land changes on TECS in China with scenarios obtained from global integrated assessment models (IAMs), which lack national details. Moreover
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How do children move and behave on streets? Vision-based movement behavior analysis using children's trajectories in urban surveillance systems Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Wonjun No, Junyong Choi, Youngchul Kim
Understanding how children use streets will allow urban planners to create streets that are livelier and more child-friendly. However, it is still challenging to investigate detailed information on children's movement behaviors on individual streets due to labor-intensive observations, the difficulty of integrating qualitative data, and privacy concerns. With the wide application of vision-based technologies